Property damage and business interruption

24.9, fire

US: Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP said a fire shut its Pasadena oil terminal in Texas, which connected refineries from along the Gulf Coast to pipelines serving the eastern and Midwest U.S. The blaze broke out in a pipeline manifold. The company planned to resume “limited operations. One employee was injured and taken to hospital. The cause of the fire and extent of damage is unknown. The fire was contained in the manifold pit. Longhorn Pipeline stopped shipping oil products from its Galena Park, Texas, terminal because of the fire at the Kinder Morgan’s terminal. The 694-mile. Longhorn common carrier pipeline can carry 72,000 barrels per day of different grades of gasoline and diesel from the Gulf Coast refineries to El Paso, Texas where other carriers offload.